The choir's clear and melodious singing voice is faintly heard through several corridors, and the rhythm is soothing, and listening to it can make people feel relaxed unconsciously.

In other words, when I heard the choir singing, I always made Rhodes feel calm and lucid in his mind.

But now, he frowned, and his mood was gloomy.

He was sitting in the bishop's office in the Yarmán Chapel, staring at a letter from the royal capital in his hand.

The letter contains detailed names of church personnel who died in the sinking of the capital of King Pharos, as well as some important people in the world.

It made him feel very heavy.

In fact, since he first heard about the sinking of the royal capital a while ago and learned the truth from internal channels in the church, he has never been in a good mood.

Before joining the church, he belonged to a family called Fitztier. There is an older sister named Olivia.

The sister married King Edie Horkheimer of Pharos at the age of 13 and raised five children, three boys and two girls.

Later, the elder sister died of illness, and the five children thrived under the wings of the royal family, and each of them performed very well.

Until now.

They all died in the capital of Pharoth.

If their deaths were simply due to the arrival of the Demon King, then Rhodes would have thought of nothing but grief and prayer.

However, he knew the truth, and this truth made him accept it all the time.

He looked at the contents of the letter for a moment, and finally he slowly put it down, and then picked up another one of the stacks of letters on the table.

As a bishop of a region, he receives many letters every day, some of which are daily reports, and some of which are emergencies that need to be decided and dealt with urgently.

The letter he picked up at this time came from a church somewhere in the diocese.

A closer look at it showed that the signature on it made Rhodes cheer up all of a sudden.

Just because the person who wrote the letter is so capable, he would not normally come to ask for advice. Unless something special happens.

When I opened the letter and took a closer look, it turned out to be very special.

Some of the emotions that had existed in Rhodes's heart were temporarily suppressed.

The letter states that heretics have used evil spirits to infiltrate Shiphull Town, and that the evil spirits have confided information about the Sea Clan.

This information made it difficult for Rhodes not to pay attention to it, especially since the upper echelons of the church had already issued a notice asking the various dioceses near the sea to prepare for the sea tribe.

At the same time, the letter mentions the recent visit of Duke Grant and some recent developments in the Neham Camboray family.

The letter didn't say much more, it seemed that there were no clues, or it simply felt that something was wrong.

However, this series of things is compared with the evil spirit lurking, how to look at how there is a momentum of wind and rain.

Rhodes was so dignified.

Historically, the Sea Clan has invaded the Pharys Kingdom many times, as they hope to enter a sea called the Sun, which is the sacred land of the Sea Clan, through a river called Gladstone in the Kingdom of Pharaos.

However, the Gladstone River is the lifeblood of the Kingdom of Pharos, which not only connects the kingdom's important places, but also has the role of transporting all kinds of goods and even food.

If the Sea Clan is allowed to break in, then it is equivalent to directly exposing the hinterland of the kingdom, not to mention that the risk is too great, and the river and the grain-producing areas around the river cannot withstand the ravages of a large number of Sea Clan.

Conflicts around this are inevitable.

In fact, there are many tributaries of the Gladstone, some of which end in lakes or other rivers, and some of which lead directly to the sea.

Each tributary to the sea is an entrance to the sea, and they have often followed these entrances for generations of invasions, and finally rushed into the mainstream before making their next move.

There is such a tributary entrance near Neham, which is connected to the sea, and it is necessary to pay attention to it in this special time.

So as for the matter of plotting against evil spirits mentioned in the letter, Rhodes really began to think about it.

Driving evil spirits to work is a very evil thing to do in the eyes of a normal clergyman, as it seems to be no different from a necromancer who plays with dead bodies and spirits.

However, given the abilities and characteristics of those evil spirits, this drive really needs to be carefully considered, because it can bring them a lot of convenience.

After thinking about it, Rhodes got up and went to a bookshelf not far away, rummaged through it, and finally took out a document.

Flipping through the information, it was full of research reports on the new evil spirits of the Holy City Characters-

Evil spirits are dormant most of the time.

Evil spirits are not aware of themselves. The control of the physical aspect is also not perfect.

Evil spirits generally behave like drunkards, and the way they manipulate their bodies does not seem to be based on spirits, but rather like puppets.

Evil spirits are not afraid of death or pain.

……

……

The study was thick, full of text, along with hand-drawn line patterns that revealed in more detail the anomalies of evil spirits, such as at torture, at death, and in response to various exorcisms.

The report does mention the wonders of this evil spirit, but why it has these abilities, the character institute has not studied the results.

Therefore, they recommend that such evil spirits must be expelled immediately after they are discovered, so that they do not carry some kind of power beyond prediction, and then cause a devastating disaster.

The church did act on the basis of this report, and the effect was very good, except for a period of great outburst at the beginning, there was basically no obvious movement of evil spirits.

However, they did not expect that the mysterious creatures that seemed to them to be full of taboos were fully exploited by some heretics......

This situation, combined with the Holy Spirit's response to the incident in the royal capital of Pharos, made Rhodes feel a little ironic inexplicably.

But then reason and years of education immediately drove this thought out of his mind.

He then pondered the feasibility of what the letter was about.

It stands to reason that it is forbidden to associate with evil spirits. But this involves the Dehai Clan, which needs to be on serious alert at the moment.

It is still necessary to distinguish which is more important than the other.

Of course, even if it involves the Sea Clan, under normal circumstances, you can't just open this opening.

However, compared to others, Bernie's identity is special.

If someone else did this kind of thing, it would definitely attract reproach from above, but if it was him......

After thinking for a while, Rhodes finally returned to his desk and wrote a reply-

"Agree to initial contact, but with caution."

……

Thinking about some of the things written in the letter, as well as the orders he received from the higher-ups above, Rhodes added another sentence in his reply-

"If the parish is wealthy, you can form a knight order to protect the believers to deal with the possible invasion of the Sea Clan in the future."